| lists.openwall.net | lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC | |
|
Open Source and information security mailing list archives
| ||
|
Date: Fri, 15 May 2015 15:25:00 +0200
From: Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu.vizoso@...labora.com>
To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>
Cc: "linux-pm@...r.kernel.org" <linux-pm@...r.kernel.org>,
Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>,
Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@...asonboard.com>,
Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>,
Kevin Hilman <khilman@...nel.org>,
Len Brown <len.brown@...el.com>, Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] PM / sleep: Let devices force direct_complete
On 14 May 2015 at 21:56, Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@...ysocki.net> wrote:
> On Thursday, May 14, 2015 03:37:52 PM Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
>> Introduce a new per-device flag power.force_direct_complete that will
>> instruct the PM core to let that device remain in runtime suspend when
>> the system goes into a sleep power state, regardless of the PM state of
>> any of its descendants.
>>
>> This is needed because otherwise it would be needed to get dozens of
>> drivers to implement the prepare() callback and be runtime PM active
>> even if they don't have a 1-to-1 relationship with a piece of HW.
>>
>> This only applies to devices that aren't wakeup-capable, as those would
>> need to setup their IRQs as wakeup-capable in their prepare() callbacks.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu.vizoso@...labora.com>
>
> Well, my idea of a "direct complete" flag was a bit different and I have
> a concern with this particular implementation. ->
Yeah, I started like that but then realized that, at least in the
uvcvideo case, it doesn't know at probe() time how many descendants
it's going to have.
This was discussed in:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.power-management.general/59157
>>
>> ---
>>
>> v2: * Fix wording as suggested by Kevin Hilman
>> ---
>> Documentation/power/runtime_pm.txt | 10 ++++++++++
>> drivers/base/power/main.c | 14 ++++++++++----
>> include/linux/pm.h | 1 +
>> 3 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/Documentation/power/runtime_pm.txt b/Documentation/power/runtime_pm.txt
>> index 44fe1d2..e131aab 100644
>> --- a/Documentation/power/runtime_pm.txt
>> +++ b/Documentation/power/runtime_pm.txt
>> @@ -665,6 +665,16 @@ as appropriate. This only applies to system suspend transitions that are not
>> related to hibernation (see Documentation/power/devices.txt for more
>> information).
>>
>> +For devices that know they can remain runtime suspended when the system
>> +transitions to a sleep state regardless of the PM state of their descendants,
>> +the flag power.force_direct_complete can be set on their device structures.
>> +This can be useful when a real device has several virtual devices as
>> +descendants and it would be very cumbersome to make sure that they return a
>> +positive value in their .prepare() callback and have runtime PM enabled. Usage
>> +of power.force_direct_complete is only allowed to devices that aren't
>> +wakeup-capable, as they would need to set their IRQs as wakeups in their
>> +.prepare() callbacks before the system transitions to a sleep state.
>> +
>> The PM core does its best to reduce the probability of race conditions between
>> the runtime PM and system suspend/resume (and hibernation) callbacks by carrying
>> out the following operations:
>> diff --git a/drivers/base/power/main.c b/drivers/base/power/main.c
>> index 3d874ec..7b962f5 100644
>> --- a/drivers/base/power/main.c
>> +++ b/drivers/base/power/main.c
>> @@ -1438,7 +1438,9 @@ static int __device_suspend(struct device *dev, pm_message_t state, bool async)
>> if (parent) {
>> spin_lock_irq(&parent->power.lock);
>>
>> - dev->parent->power.direct_complete = false;
>> + if (!dev->parent->power.force_direct_complete)
>> + dev->parent->power.direct_complete = false;
>> +
>> if (dev->power.wakeup_path
>> && !dev->parent->power.ignore_children)
>> dev->parent->power.wakeup_path = true;
>> @@ -1605,9 +1607,13 @@ static int device_prepare(struct device *dev, pm_message_t state)
>> * will do the same thing with all of its descendants". This only
>> * applies to suspend transitions, however.
>> */
>> - spin_lock_irq(&dev->power.lock);
>> - dev->power.direct_complete = ret > 0 && state.event == PM_EVENT_SUSPEND;
>> - spin_unlock_irq(&dev->power.lock);
>> + if (state.event == PM_EVENT_SUSPEND) {
>> + spin_lock_irq(&dev->power.lock);
>> + dev->power.direct_complete = ret > 0 ||
>> + (dev->power.force_direct_complete &&
>> + !device_can_wakeup(dev));
>
> -> What if the bus type (or PM domain) has a good reason to not return a positive
> number from ->prepare even though the driver thinks it would be OK to do that?
>
> The changes here would break that case I think, wouldn't they?
Yeah, will try to come up with a way for bus types and PM domains in
the subtree to be able to override that.
Thanks,
Tomeu
> I thought about adding a flag that would work if the ->prepare callback was
> not present. So device_prepare() would check that flag for NULL 'callback'
> only and then it would set 'ret' to 1 if the flag was set.
>
> Something like in the (untested) patch below.
>
> Wouldn't that be sufficient to cover the use cases you care about?
>
>> + spin_unlock_irq(&dev->power.lock);
>> + }
>> return 0;
>> }
>>
>> diff --git a/include/linux/pm.h b/include/linux/pm.h
>> index 2d29c64..2e41cfd 100644
>> --- a/include/linux/pm.h
>> +++ b/include/linux/pm.h
>> @@ -553,6 +553,7 @@ struct dev_pm_info {
>> bool ignore_children:1;
>> bool early_init:1; /* Owned by the PM core */
>> bool direct_complete:1; /* Owned by the PM core */
>> + bool force_direct_complete:1;
>> spinlock_t lock;
>> #ifdef CONFIG_PM_SLEEP
>> struct list_head entry;
>>
>
> ---
> drivers/base/power/main.c | 2 ++
> include/linux/pm.h | 1 +
> 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+)
>
> Index: linux-pm/drivers/base/power/main.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-pm.orig/drivers/base/power/main.c
> +++ linux-pm/drivers/base/power/main.c
> @@ -1589,6 +1589,8 @@ static int device_prepare(struct device
> trace_device_pm_callback_start(dev, info, state.event);
> ret = callback(dev);
> trace_device_pm_callback_end(dev, ret);
> + } else if (dev->power.direct_complete_default) {
> + ret = 1;
> }
>
> device_unlock(dev);
> Index: linux-pm/include/linux/pm.h
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-pm.orig/include/linux/pm.h
> +++ linux-pm/include/linux/pm.h
> @@ -553,6 +553,7 @@ struct dev_pm_info {
> bool ignore_children:1;
> bool early_init:1; /* Owned by the PM core */
> bool direct_complete:1; /* Owned by the PM core */
> + bool direct_complete_default:1; /* Ditto */
> spinlock_t lock;
> #ifdef CONFIG_PM_SLEEP
> struct list_head entry;
>
> --
> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
> the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
> More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
> Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
Powered by blists - more mailing lists